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A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time
1. DON QUIXOTE by Miguel de Cervantes (1605, 1615)
2. WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy (1869)
3. ULYSSES by James Joyce (1922)
4. IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME by Marcel Proust (1913–27)
5. THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV by Feodor Dostoevsky (1880)
6. MOBY-DICK by Herman Melville (1851)
7. MADAME BOVARY by Gustave Flaubert (1857)
8. MIDDLEMARCH by George Eliot (1871–72)
9. THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN by Thomas Mann (1924)
10. THE TALE OF GENJI by Murasaki Shikibu (11th Century)
11. EMMA by Jane Austen (1816)
12. BLEAK HOUSE by Charles Dickens (1852–53)
13. ANNA KARENINA by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
14. ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain (1884)
15. TOM JONES by Henry Fielding (1749)
16. GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens (1860–61)
17. ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner (1936)
18. THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James (1903)
19. ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)
20. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
21. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf (1927)
22. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Feodor Dostoevsky (1866)
23. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner (1929)
24. VANITY FAIR by William Makepeace Thackeray (1847–48)
25. DEAD SOULS by Nikolai Gogol (1842)
26. LE PÈRE GORIOT by Honoré de Balzac (1835)
27. THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY by Henry James (1881)
28. WOMEN IN LOVE by D. H. Lawrence (1920)
29. THE RED AND THE BLACK by Stendhal (1830)
30. TRISTRAM SHANDY by Laurence Sterne (1760–67)
31. FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce (1939)
32. TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES by Thomas Hardy (1891)
33. BUDDENBROOKS by Thomas Mann (1901)
34. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison (1952)
35. THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES by Robert Musil (1930–43)
36. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce (1916)
37. MOLLOY, MALONE DIES, THE UNNAMABLE by Samuel Beckett (1951–53)
38. THE TIN DRUM by Günter Grass (1959)
39. WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Brontë (1847)
40. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen (1813)
41. THE SCARLET LETTER by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
42. GRAVITY’S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon (1973)
43. BELOVED by Toni Morrison (1987)
44. NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad (1904)
45. FATHERS AND SONS by Ivan Turgenev (1862)
46. THE TRIAL by Franz Kafka (1925)
47. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
48. MRS DALLOWAY by Virginia Woolf (1925)
49. DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER by Cao Xueqin (1791)
50. CLARISSA by Samuel Richardson (1747–48)
51. PERSUASION by Jane Austen (1818)
52. JANE EYRE by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
53. DAVID COPPERFIELD by Charles Dickens (1849–1850)
54. PETERSBURG by Andrey Bely (1916/1922)
55. THINGS FALL APART by Chinua Achebe (1958)
56. THE PRINCESS OF CLEVES by Madame de Lafayette (1678)
57. THE STRANGER by Albert Camus (1942)
58. THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE by Stephen Crane (1895)
59. THE COUNTERFEITERS by André Gide (1926)
60. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck (1939)
61. THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK by Doris Lessing (1962)
62. SONS AND LOVERS by D. H. Lawrence (1913)
63. THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford (1915)
64. A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E. M. Forster (1924)
65. DANIEL DERONDA by George Eliot (1876)
66. GERMINAL by Émile Zola (1885)
67. MY ÁNTONIA by Willa Cather (1918)
68. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser (1925)
69. HUNGER by Knut Hamsun (1890)
70. BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ by Alfred Döblin (1929)
71. MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie (1981)
72. U.S.A. TRILOGY by John Dos Passos (1930–38)
73. LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1782)
74. THE CHARTERHOUSE OF PARMA by Stendhal (1839)
75. THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1774)
76. CITIES OF SALT by ‘Abd al-Rahman Mun¯ıf (1984–89)
77. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway (1929)
78. THE DEATH OF ARTEMIO CRUZ by Carlos Fuentes (1962)
79. HERZOG by Saul Bellow (1964)
80. CANDIDE by Voltaire (1759)
81. THE SLEEPWALKERS by Hermann Broch (1932)
82. THE LAST CHRONICLE OF BARSET by Anthony Trollope (1866–67)
83. THE AWAKENING by Kate Chopin (1899)
84. ROBINSON CRUSOE by Daniel Defoe (1719)
85. CALL IT SLEEP by Henry Roth (1934)
86. WAVERLEY by Sir Walter Scott (1814)
87. OBLOMOV by Ivan Goncharov (1859)
88. THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
89. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry (1947)
90. SNOW COUNTRY by Kawabata Yasunari (1937, 1948)
91. NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR by George Orwell (1949)
92. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner (1930)
93. THE PICKWICK PAPERS by Charles Dickens (1836–37)
94. THE BETROTHED by Alessandro Manzoni (1827, 1840)
95. PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov (1962)
96. THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS by James Fenimore Cooper (1826)
97. LES MISÉRABLES by Victor Hugo (1862)
98. UNCLE TOM’S CABIN by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
99. DOCTOR ZHIVAGO by Boris Pasternak (1957)
100. NATIVE SON by Richard Wright (1940)
101. On The Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
102. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
103. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1958)
104. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)
105. Dom Casmurro by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1899)
106. A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov (1840)
107. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
108. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (1722)
109. The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek (1921–23)
110. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (1967)
111. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (1945)
112. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1984)
113. American Pastoral by Philip Roth (1997)
114. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)
115. Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost (1731)
116. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (1860)
117. Some Prefer Nettles By Tanizaki Jun’ichir¯o (1929)
118. A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul (1979)
119. Cold Nights by Ba Jin (1947)
120. Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)
121. The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abé (1962)
122. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936)
123. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (1844)
124. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
125. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
